· Private foundation
Leestma Family Foundation
Its FY2025 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k3 grants · $15k
- $10k–50k25 grants · $525k
- $50k–250k2 grants · $160k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| Canal Alliance | $90,000 |
| Center for Domestic Peace | $70,000 |
| Mark Day School | $40,000 |
| Planned Parenthood of Northern CA | $40,000 |
| Cabrillo College Foundation The Ses | $35,000 |
| Community Action Marin | $35,000 |
| Jubilee Ministries | $35,000 |
| San Francisco-Marin Food Bank | $30,000 |
| Community Action House | $30,000 |
| Encompass Community Services GEMMA | $25,000 |
| The Salvation Army - San Rafael | $25,000 |
| Greater Chicago Food Depository | $20,000 |
| Doctors Without Borders | $20,000 |
| Habitat for Humanity | $20,000 |
| North Marin Community Services | $20,000 |
Do your dollars go where the need is?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, then read against the area’s typical level.
Your human-services grants (FY17–25, $810k) land where the poverty rate runs at 9%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 10% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Your grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.
Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty linein the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP; grantee ZIP can differ from where services are delivered.
Which US states your grants reach
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are actually delivered. Need from public data — U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA — shown as context about the area, never attributed to your giving.
Who you back again
Which organizations you funded more than once, and which you funded a single time. Each grantee is matched to its own filings.
And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +68% since the first grant, against +31% for the ones you funded once.
41 repeat relationships — 24 still active in FY2025, 17 since wound down; 5 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).
How the two cohorts compare
Organizations
Total granted
Median revenue growth · since first grant
Still filing today
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2025, 86% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $95k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
First-time = a grantee’s first year in your filing window; renewed = funded in an earlier year too. As a portfolio matures the renewed share naturally climbs — once funded, an org stays “renewable” — so the signal is the years that buck it (a new-grantee intake wave). The earliest year is left-censored: relationships that predate the data read as “new.” Theme is the grantee’s IRS cause.
Backed again, and grew
- CACANAL ALLIANCE9× · 2017–2025 · $390k · revenue +229%
Center for Domestic Peace9× · 2017–2025 · $341k · revenue +79%- JMJUBILEE MINISTRIES INC9× · 2017–2025 · $215k · revenue +485%
Funded once
- TSThe Salvation Army - Fort Meyers Brone grant, 2022 · $20k
- TSTHE SALVATION ARMYone grant, 2017 · $20k
- LJLa Jolla Institute for Allergy Immuone grant, 2017 · $5k
Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.
The map has a center of gravity: the average direction from the rest of the sector toward the organizations the foundation funds — the shape of its giving. Scoring every nonprofit along that direction surfaces the ones that look most like the portfolio. These are the closest matchesthat aren’t grantees — a resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.
Marin humane transforms lives through exceptional animal care, humane education, and advocacy. every day, marin humane inspires compassion and positive relationships between people and animals.
A long-term, strategic alliance of labor, community, faith-based, and student organizations working together to build greater economic power for workers and community members through employee rights at work and access to good jobs,…
Building a movement of diverse, upwardly mobile college grads overcoming underemployment through digital skills and peer connections.
The california dental association is committed to the success of our members in service to their patients and the public.
Mentis provides bilingual professional mental health services to people throughout the county of every age, stage, and income level.
Provides person-centered and inclusive services to children and adults with and without disabilities that includes securing employment, connecting to necessary supportive services, accessing housing and participating fully as contributing…
The AIA California, in collaboration with local components, is the voice of the architectural profession.
The common application is a not-for-profit membership organization of over 1,100 colleges and universities across the globe committed to access, equity, and integrity in the college admission process. every year, over 1.5 million students…
Ca fwd drives action to identify solutions that can be taken to scale to meet the challenges the state is facing. the organization is driven by the belief that regional solutions across the state will help ensure economic, environmental,…
The union of concerned scientists puts rigorous, independent science into action, developing solutions and advocating for a healthy, safe, and just future.
To enhance the long-term viability of california agriculture through leadership development, which in turn benefits the people and communities that agriculture serves. we grow leaders who make a difference.
Alternatives, inc.'s mission is to facilitate personal development,strengthen family relationships and enhance the community's well being. serving over 3,000 youth and families annually, the organization offers a range of counseling and…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Community Action House and the most unlike its peers is Rehabilitation Institute of Chicago. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
Your grantees are a median of 45 years old; the field is 17. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 20% startups (under 5 years old) — 0% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 3% lost their exemption, against 14% of the field you don’t fund.
Age = years since IRS exemption (a founding proxy). “Closed” = auto-revocation for 3 years of non-filing — a floor on closure, not proof, and bigger established orgs lapse least. Association, not causation.
36 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.
Each one resolved to its own IRS returns and tracked year by year — your grant beside their revenue from every source. Association, dated; never a causal claim.
Counted here: distinct organizations you funded across 2017–2025, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 36 of the 55 grantees resolved in that span have returns of their own we could reconcile; the rest are funded organizations whose filings we could not track year by year.
Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee
Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing
Go grantee by grantee — a decade per org, and how each moved after you funded them
A decade per grantee — revenue shaded, your grants as bars, all rows on one timeline.
- Who funds CANAL ALLIANCE ↗
- Who funds Center for Domestic Peace ↗
- Who funds JUBILEE MINISTRIES INC ↗
- Who funds MEDECINS SANS FRONTIERES USA INC ↗
- Who funds ST JAMES CATHEDRAL COUNSELING CTR ↗
- Who funds GREATER CHICAGO FOOD DEPOSITORY ↗
- Who funds SAN FRANCISCO FOOD BANK ↗
- Who funds COMMUNITY ACTION MARIN ↗
- Who funds 10000 DEGREES ↗
- Who funds DEBORAH'S PLACE ↗
- Who funds TRIPS FOR KIDS NATIONAL ↗
- Who funds Cabrillo College Foundation ↗
- Who funds MARK DAY SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds EVERYTOWN FOR GUN SAFETY SUPPORT FUND INC ↗
- Who funds MENTAL HEALTH CLIENT ACTION NETWORK ↗
- Who funds MARIN AGRICULTURAL LAND TRUST ↗
- Who funds HUCKLEBERRY YOUTH PROGRAMS INC ↗
- Who funds CHICAGO COALITION TO END HOMELESSNESS ↗
- Who funds Land Conservancy of West Michigan ↗
- Who funds ENVIRONMENTAL DEFENSE FUND INCORPORATED ↗
- Who funds The Edible Schoolyard Project dba The Alice Waters Institute ↗
- Who funds SLIDE RANCH ↗
- Who funds NORTH LAWNDALE COLLEGE PREPARATORY CHARTER HIGH SCHOOL INC ↗
- Who funds COMMUNITY ACTION HOUSE ↗
- Who funds JUVENILE PROTECTIVE ASSOCIATION ↗
- Who funds North Marin Community Services ↗
- Who funds Northwestern University ↗
The grantmakers whose grantees overlap with yours far more than size alone predicts. Each orbits closer the stronger the alignment; the arcs between them show where they also fund each other. Here it reads as a tightly interlocked camp — most of these funders back each other's grantees too.
Open a dossier: Leonard & Beryl Buck Foundation · Marin Community Foundation · Bothin Foundation · McNabb Foundation · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · Hobsonlucas Family Foundation · Silicon Valley Community Foundation · Gordon E and Betty I Moore Foundation · Amg Charitable Gift Foundation · Kaiser Foundation Hospitals · The Chicago Community Trust · The San Francisco Foundation
Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. A research starting point: overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.
Government reliance of your grantees
Every dot is one organization Leestma Family Foundation funds. Left–right is the share of its income from government; up–down is the share from you. Bigger dots raise more. Filter to federal or a single department — and drag the year to watch it move.
Government income is each org’s traced federal awards (USASpending — grants and contracts) plus state payments (open checkbooks) as a share of its total revenue (IRS Form 990); the self-reported government-grant line (990 line 1e) is carried for cross-check: a grantee that reports government grants we could not trace to a source is left off the chart rather than shown as receiving none. An association, not a claim that your grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first — a floor, not a census; state records exist for 9 states, so a grantee outside them shows no state figure (dimmed) rather than a false zero. Federal award amounts are obligations, which can span years, so a single-year share is indicative. 990 filings lag 12–24 months.